Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft has released a series of statistics on the preview of the next major version of its Internet Explorer browser that the company made available in mid-March, including download trends. According to published reports, Microsoft has seen about 700,000 downloads of the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview since its release on March 16 at the […]

How Masters.com Can Prevent a Tiger Woods Traffic Meltdown by Darryl K. Taft Tiger Woods Makes a Comeback Following an emotional apology to his family and fans over marital indiscretions, Tiger Woods is making his return to the gold world after a self-imposed exile by playing in the famed Masters Tournament, which officially started April […]

Replay Solutions, which describes itself as a maker of “application life-cycle, software debugging and problem resolution technology,” has released the results of a survey of more than 1,000 enterprise Java developers that indicates that enterprise Java developers are moving to the cloud. The Replay survey reveals data about enterprise Java developer usage patterns with Java […]

The open-source software community is up in arms over claims that IBM has broken its promise to the community by asserting its patents against an open-source project. However, IBM says it has done no such thing. In a letter to Roger Bowler, president of French mainframe emulator software maker TurboHercules, Mark Anzani, IBM vice president […]

iRise has announced iRise 8, the next major release of the iRise enterprise visualization platform. iRise is a provider of enterprise visualization software for business applications. Enterprises use iRise software to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to market, improves customer experience and drives cost down, the company said. And the new […]

MySpace has delivered a set of Developer Analytics APIs to allow developers to better monitor the performance of their applications that run on MySpace. In a blog post about the new APIs, Owyn Richen, development manager for the mail platform at MySpace, said this set of APIs enables developers to acquire statistical data about their […]

Hot or Not: Developer Interest in iPad Ticks Up and Down by Darryl K. Taft Developer Interest in the iPad Cools from Earlier This Year In January, 90 percent of developers surveyed said they were “very interested” in developing applications for the iPad. Resurveyed in March, only 80 percent said the same. The Breakdown According […]

Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009. In a move many compared to seeing pigs fly, “Microsoft submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services to the Linux Kernel Community last July to provide the integration that customers were looking for […]

Adobe has teamed up with Google to integrate its Flash Player with Google’s Chrome browser. On March 30 the two companies announced that Google had released an initial integration of the Flash Player with Chrome to its developer channel. The first release consists of an integrated Adobe Flash Player plug-in and a basic plug-in manager. […]

Engine Yard, a provider of a cloud computing platform for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, has announced a new professional support offering for JRuby developers. With the core JRuby team now residing at Engine Yard, the company is now providing an industry first in delivering professional services for JRuby developers. JRuby is an implementation […]

Appcelerator, maker of the open-source Titanium cross-platform mobile, desktop and Web development platform, has released a new survey of its developer base that indicates that, while still hot, developer interest in Apple’s iPad is slightly on the wane from earlier this year, while interest in the Google Android platform continues to grow. When Appcelerator initially […]

Rod Adkins is senior vice president in charge of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, the company’s $19 billion semiconductor, server, storage and systems software business. He was named to the job in October 2009. Adkins has held a number of product development, business operations and general management positions since joining IBM in 1981, including stints […]